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Old 06-16-2014, 07:58 AM   #43
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There were also tax-law considerations and accounting issues because agency "commissions" are tracked and taxed differently across the 5000 different local tax regimes in the US. For the big boys the added costs were, if not trivial, certainly manageable but those added fixed costs were...unwelcome...at smaller vendors...

The conspiracy allowed the bigger, walled-garden, ebook vendors effective exclusivity on BPH titles for several months during 2010, thus shifting sales away from the smaller, generic-epub vendors.
What about the small companies that were selling books through apps? One had been discussed here when it closed: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=132791
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